The Project

An urgent pocket guide to Project 2025ΓÇöthe playbook for TrumpΓÇÖs second administrationΓÇöa decoder for what it says,what it means for abortionLGBTQ rightsundocumented immigrants and more from an award-winning staff writer at The Atlantic. When President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025news spread about his implementation of Project 2025a nearly 1000-page document published by the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation. The debatesΓÇöand anxietyΓÇösurrounding this initiative have only increased as authors of the Project assume positions of power in the second Trump administration. Sowhat is Project 2025exactly? Who wrote itand what does its mean for everyday Americansacross the political spectrumnow and in the years to come? In The Projectaward-winning journalist David A. Graham offers much-needed context and distills the essential elements of this sprawling document. Breaking down the ProjectΓÇÖs strategy for transformingΓÇöand radically empoweringΓÇöthe executive branchGraham then explains what the architects behind Project 2025 are doing with that power: enforcing traditional gender normsdecimating the civil serviceperforming mass deportationsreducing corporate regulation and worker protectionsand more. Project 2025 is the intellectual blueprint for the new administrationGraham arguesand its tenets should not be legible only to policy wonks. Authoritative yet highly accessibleThe Project demystifies it for those whose lives it will affect most.